WORK IN PROGRESS – UNFINISHED STATE ‘Mistletoe’ medium size oil on canvas 15 F ©adam cope Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette Experimenting with a new mix for ‘black’. Lets call it a ‘chromatic black’ (as does Dan Smith oil paints) in the hope that it’s more colour friendly than soot (lamp black)& burnt bones…
Category: Colour in painting
Colour in general & colour in painting and art – Lots of it, splashes, tubes & brushes with colour
Colour Study in Oil
”The Sluice Gate’ Small Size Oil on Masonite 23 x 25 cm © adam cope 100 euros ex P & P The small study is an effort to simplify & to prioritise colour over detail & tonality. Just a study, just a little inkling of an idea… Take it further into a fully resolved large…
Heightened Colour in Photography
heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour The same question of heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour (what ever that means) applies to photography. Just as it does in painting.. How much do you ‘bump’ the saturation up? The loss is a smooth gradient, of how one colour runs into another. We live in colour sataurated world &…
Fauvist Barns 3 : Red in Landscape Painting
‘Sechoir à Tabac 2’ (Tobacco Drying Barn) Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). ©adam cope for sale Red in landscape painting acts as a magnet Red in a landscape acts as a magnet for my eye. The red oxide corrigated tin door catches my eye every time I drive…
Sunset 3 Jan – Plein-Air Paintings of the Sun by Monet, Turner & Levitan
Sunset 3 Jan 2009 Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. Painting of the winter sun hanging a in clear sky Sometimes the sun is a round ball in the sky, shining weakly, pale against a smokey sky. Other times it’s too bright to look at, blindingly…
Warm & Cool Colours in Painting
Some colour theorists confute the notion of warm & cool colours, saying it is far too culturally relative to be constant. Red in one culture is perceived as cool whilst in another it is considered warm. Weither or not scientists use the concept of warm / cool is up to them, IMO. As painters, I…
2 Rangs de Malbec – UNFINISHED STATE
‘2 Rangs de Malbec’ -UNFINISHED STATE oil on canvas 36 x 48 cm (8F) sold Unfinished state – I could say that about myself… ‘work in progress’; hummm. my fauvist desires Actually I did this one a week ago. But since then I’ve been too busy with other obligations & not had the time to…
Sept Rangs de Cot Rouge
‘Sept Rangs de Cot Rouge’ Watercolour. 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. sold Red colour in autumn vine leaves Seven Rows of ‘Cot Rouge’, a parcel of Cot (better known as Malbec) between fourteen rows of Cabernet Franc & on the otherside, I think there was a parcel of Cabernet Sauvignon…
Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky
this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available anti-fauve barns Just updating the post ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…
L’Orge en Dordogne, sud ouest France
33 x 41 cm. Oil on Panel.© The Artist. Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur). SOLD Fields of colour, not quite colour field painting. “When we walked in fields of gold” – Sting
